Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-02-04

Where thou goest will 60 Thy people
shall be my people. thy God my God Where
thou diest will die and there will. I ba
| ouried. The Lord do so to me and mors
also if aught but death part thee and me- .
| They come for shelter. When trouble comes
toyou, you take valerian to soothe the nerves,
| or you take alcohol to revive the spirits:
but the medicines fail and the stimulants
fail Then you try the excitements of busi-
| ueSS, or you try the merry making of the
elubrooms; but you are like the dove that
went out from the ark. Itlew to the north
and there was a waste of water, to the SOUTH
| to the east and to the west--there was moth
1dg but waste of waters in which floated
the carcasses of the dead world and the first
solid thing the dove touched after leaving the
ark was the window of the ark No peace
out OF God. No hope, no comfort, no solaco
have tried the solace of this world IT ia
most insufficient. Oh, the infinite quackery
of this worlds comfort. 1t cannot help an
| immortal spirit.
Substantial comfort will not grow
In Natures barren soil;
All we can boast, till Christ we know,
Is vanity and toll.
But where the Lord has planted grace,
And made His glories known,
The fruits of Heavenly peace are found.
The eve World rifi has Red tried to comfort you. You
lost parent A friend came in and said:
| "Well, that is according to law of nature
that your father should EXPIRE Any COM
fort in thati None. You lost your little
child. Somebody came in aud said: "Well,
perhaps if the child had lived it might have
turned out badly" Any hope, any comfort
in thats None at all. You lost your prop
erty. A friend came in and said:
"Well, it only shows that riches ere
| very uncertain" You knew that before.
| No comfort. 1t is miserable quackery when
the world tries to comfort soul. But here
NIricf har N,,0l
erty that you might appreciate better the
Heavenly treasures; took physical health that
| you might better appreciate spiritual health; I
took your loved ones for had a better and
brighter place for them, and | wanted
them at the gate when you come
through" So your soul Is comfort
| ed. and the tears are dried and the
wounds are healed. The air sometimes gets
very dark with ravens wings, and they shut
out all brightness and all comfort, and when
| it is so dark and the voices Of these ravens
make the air horrible with their sound, then
Christ comes in to soothe the soul, and lie
says: 1.-THE mountains may depart and the
| hills be removed, but my loving kindness
will never fail you.n Shelter-everlasting
shelter-in this dovecot of the Gospel.
But this flock of souls that have come into
the Kingdom of God to-day, are like doves
to their windows because they fly home.
The most of the birds have no home. Win
ter in one cline summer in another cline.
| This year q nest in one tree; next year nest
in another tree The golden oriole of Ger
many stays only three months there and
then it is gone. The linnet of Norway
flies across the sea to get rid of the
wintry blast. The heron, the gross
beak and the goldfinch are all migratory.
Ihey have no home. But the pigeons, the
doves spoken of in the text, they have the
| dovecot for the summer and for the winter.
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| Christ, the dovecot of eternal mercy. oh,
how many have found the mercy and favor
| of Christ all they needed in all weathers,
bright weather and dark. weather, winter
weather and summer weather, spring
weather and autumn weather. A
does the Psalmist say? 1--WE come un-
der the feathers of the Almighty" Our for
tunes may drop ten degrees below zero. The
SHOWS of trouble may fall around us, the
winds of persecution may blow against us,
the jsclals of death may stalk forth at us.
Home, safely home, in the heart-of God,
| nothing can disturb u.s. Nothing can over
throw us. The everlasting God is our shei-
ter. The Sheriff may sell us out and our
comfortable homes may go into the hands Of
strangers; but Christ, our home, is home
forever And yet hear people talking as
though when man became Christian he
| put ont on trackless moor las though he went
| ds
No. "As doves to the windows
This great flock of souls that come into the
/ Kingdom of God to-day, are like doves to
their windows, because they come in focks.
The buzzard, with filthy wing, fitting up
from the carrion, is alone. You look into
the sky and once in a while you can find a
solitary bird winging by; but the doves
spoken of in the text come in focks. So
these souls to-day come by scores and hun
dreds, whole f1ocks of them. MOI
straggler trying to catch up
with an army, but a solid column.
Not stray drop on the cheek or the hand
so that you are hardly aware whether it
rains or not; but the rush of an unmistakable
shower. Not the raking up of a few CLEAN
ings, but the full sheaves tossed into the
garner. "As doves to their windows" Some
of them are young, you have noticed, and
the first time they use their wings is to fly
into the Kingdom of God. Some are
old and their wings have been torn of
the shot and rutfied of the tempest,
and they flew far out at sea, and we thought
they would never come back again, and some
have dipped their wings in fountains of sin
and death, and some made very crooked
csurse as they flew along; but they have
changed their course; they have come back
"as doves to their wndowsn Oh, shall not
to my dying hour cease to praise God
for the manifestation of His grace here to-
day. Praise Him, sun and moon and stars.
Praise Him, Church militant on earth.
Praise Him, Church triumphant in Heaven.
Let the Church on earth raise its right hand,
and let the Church of II Hsaven lower its right
hand until they clasp in joy and congratula
tion, and then let the elders of the church put
the wine of celebration to our lips and let
the cupbearers of Heaven bring from the
vaults of eternity, the oldest wine prepared
by Him who trod the winepress alone, and
let two worlds at once keep jubilee. Oh yes
ella IunU rrzEf fasw
Before the time of Robert Raikes there was
no combined effort for the salvation of the
young. People were allowed to 60 on in theil
sin, and after a while were brought back
If they were brought back at all
There has been a notion in the church that
people must be allowed to SOW their wilc
oats and after while they will come back
| have noticed that % out of 100 of the people
who SOW wild oats never reap any othel
crop they SOW to the wind and they
reap the whirlwind. The church ha
found out that it is easier to keep train on
the track than to get II on the track wheI
once it is o + the track. The experienced
reinsman checks the fiery steed at the tlrs
jump, for he knows that il it get under full
swing and its hoof strike fire and it take The
bit in its teeth, the momentum is ire
sstible And so we rejoice at the coming o.
the young. Oh, that Christ to-day would
take all these f'wers Of youth and make
them into garland for His own blessed
brow. In the heaviest snowstorm that
ever saw, | went to see dying girl in my
parish. Her cheek on the pillow was a.
white as the snow on the easement
Loved ones stood around the couch They
could not give her up. They seemed to b.
trying to hold her back in this world
Father could not give her up. Mother coult
not give her up; and one nearer and dearel
than father or mother was frantic with griel
as he stood there | said: "Fannie, how dc
you feel to-dayp' She said: 'Mr Talmage,
[ feel happy I feel very happy. | wish
you would tell all the young folks next
Sunday that religion will make then
happy" AS left the room, above the sob